OUCH! 40% electricity rate hike thanks to turbines/panels

How many of you are prepared to do this? Speak up to your legislators or forever hold your tongue when the rates rise!

So what’s changing now? Spain’s debt has hit a record-breaking €882 billion. About €26 billion of that is what Spain owes power companies for a decade-long subsidization for selling electricity at less than cost to its customers, as well as the country’s ample investment in going green, which, according to The Economist, increased 18-fold in the last five years.

Earlier this summer, the Spanish Ministry of Industry laid out its plan to cut off its subsidizing of green energy, equating to about a €2.7-billion charge to utility companies and wind and solar farmers, passing on a roughly 40-percent hike to energy consumers.

If you visit Fairneny — and people are; people from Savoy, in particular, where a wind farm is being proposed — he will likely employ colorful language to explain to you why industrial wind turbines are a bad deal from the standpoint of noise, alleged health risks, and impact on the environment and property values. "We're screwed here," he say […]

WPD Canada has stated that the company’s board of directors have decided not to proceed with an appeal of that decision, and will not be moving ahead with what would have been an eight-turbine project.

The construction of a larger 30 megawatt capacity wind project in the same general area northwest of Kimball where a decommissioned wind project has existed in the past will triple the amount of power generated.